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Kuo: Apple to Release Foldable iPad With Carbon Fiber Kickstand in 2024
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I don't understand why people spell it wrong.
And of course when rumors don’t materialize everyone wading in the rumor mill has the out of saying the product has been delayed or there were last minute changes so they never have to admit they were wrong.
I think the only real benefit is when you can make a phone-sized device fold out into a tablet-sized device. Basically get an iPad in your pocket. It could run iOS in its phone mode and iPadOS in its tablet mode. Two for one.
Every day we step closer to this reality:
I’m hoping they have too. A foldable tablet would work well for me, but that crease I’ve seen on every iteration of the galaxy folds and flips is a no go for me. Just kind of bothers me seeing it, like a floater that won’t go away 🤨
If it’s a foldable iPad, why would it need a kickstand? Doesn’t sound like something Apple would make.
Foldable screen - well, as far as the design aesthetic goes - it might as well be a laptop, it’s never going to be pretty and the ‘crease’ issue is guaranteed to rear its ugly head. Make it an extendable rolled edge and you’ll have some worthy of the label ‘innovative’.
Would you mind elaborating? A foldable iPad doesn't make sense to me. Is this supposed to be a variation of "2-in-1" laptops? What are we gaining by folding or unfolding?
Folded it's a smaller "tablet". Unfolded it's a much larger tablet? Inbetween it's a laptop?
I’m guessing it might be like the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Fold with a touchscreen keyboard. This is one of the better looking iPad alternatives I’ve seen.
I think if Apple is going to make a foldable the iPad is the right product.
But I agree in that every foldable screen in market looks and feels like cheap plastic. On top of that they all have a crease.
If Apple can solve both those draw backs then cool. If not its going to tarnish the brand IMO.
You can be sure that Apple will never release anything with a foldable screen.
Get a pair of JNCO jeans and problem solved
May I suggest you sign up for Apple's Fitness+
I bet after 3 months of workouts that MBA wont feel too heavy anymore.
Call me when they actually deliver. I won't be waiting around for your call.
The sad thing about the state of Apple's reputation now, at least from my perspective at least, is that when I hear any rumor about an Apple product that is even slightly outside the scope of their current money printing formula of releasing the same set of products with only marginally incremental upgrades, is that I immediately know that the rumor is probably false.
I mean just look at the history since Jobs. It has almost entirely been milking existing product lines with minimal innovation. Basically, put in a new chip. Make the camera a little better. Make the device bigger or smaller. What has been truly new? The Apple Watch was already set in motion before Jobs died, with Apple having a team of 100 working on it in 2011, the same year Jobs died. So really, what else is there? Answer: The HomePod. That's all. Over a decade, and the only truly new product they have been able to come up with where Jobs wasn't involved on some level is the HomePod. Wow.
If its not then its pointless.
A device that goes from the size of an iPad mini while folded to an iPad Pro while unfolded is worthless. I don't want an iPad mini, and neither do most people. It needs to be a usable size when folded (at least 10-11") and then much much larger when unfolded. Otherwise there is zero utility and all gimmick to this folding.
